Watching the cat limp, soul-crushing.

God, I forgot how incredible the art direction and sheer environmental density was put into this game. It’s truly an interactive art exhibit. I wish it was able to have been a longer play through with more cryptic puzzles, but it still excels in what it was designed to do.

"a booger with sentience" may be my new favorite insult.

It absolutely slays me when Thor is going on about how everything in the cypher language is important to the lore, and the journal in the flat says "FFFFFSSDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOEHEHEHEHEHEG DDDDDDDDDDDQQQQQQWW" and the subtitles are just "nah, I'm dumb, it's actually gibberish" The thought of you having an archive of screenshot to decode, and most are random letters that look pretty kills me 🤣

"It doesn't matter if your game has amazing stats, or incredible game mechanics or anything like that. Sometimes you just want to sit down and listen to a robot playing music." This is going into my lexicon, and if I ever do make anything, it's going in there.

the slow blink at the end T___T my heart

Loved this so much. Already watched 2 other playthroughs but this was completely gripping because how invested and insightful Thor was x

Heck yes! Love these long plays. I really appreciate that you upload them in full since I'm in NA and have a typical work schedule so I can never catch streams live.

‘That building has the meats. I love Arby’s..they have a reuben sandwich… it’s the king of foods’ sometimes the sentences just run-on im lovin it

This is a game you play exactly twice... once at first, second to get all the memories, songs, secrets, etc. Then you're done... but both times it's so -satisfying-. Stray is a subtle masterpiece. It's what you show to anyone who claims video games can't be deep, meaningful art.

3:30:00 Can we appreciate that this CAT is smart enough to fix an electric generator? One orange braincell, my ass...

Length of a game vs cost of a game. Time invested might be the phrase I'd use. Thing is, not all games are the same kind of entertainment. You can dump 1000 hours in some multiplayer shooter where you do the same things over and over against other players and that brings with it a competitive triumph and other feelings. However, a narrative game, a story driven game. That's more akin to watching a movie. The difference is, you get immersed because you're part of that story, you're the driving element. That is more comparable to the cost vs length of a movie if you're still trying to look at it that way. So hour per dollar is far higher, but the emotional aspect of that is a very different thing, something a shooter you dump 1000 hours into can never really replicate. Truth is, you can't really compare the cost to the duration in the same way simply because the cost to make a game like this you'd dump 1000 hours into would be impossibly high. You're paying for a very different kind of content and therefore paying a very different kind of cost. Another good game you could get this same thing from was Firewatch. That game lasted maybe 3 hours for me, but was a very satisfying experience despite the shorter length. You just can't look at it in terms of length vs cost like you can other games.

Stray was a welcome change to a time full of action games for me. It was cute, relaxing and breathtaking. It felt so fresh and captivating. I hope we see more games like this.

Super cosy! Love the way you look at games, like an artist appreciating another persons painting. Very absorbing!

What I like about the beginning section is that everyone doesn't really trust the glitchy signs saying to follow until the signs save them from the flesh creatures, it sort of builds trust with you

Hey Thor, a watcher from Italy here. Wanted to say that I really enjoy your longplays here on yt. I've already seen your Inscryption and Outer Wilds videos and I liked them a lot. You have a nice energy and, of course, a great voice. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your work and life! Cheers!

Thanks for making 7hours more interesting and fun while being home and under the weather. Now on to watch your video library

Imagine if the devs of Stray made another game where you played as a ferret. Thor would be over the moon.

Such a beautiful game, I've played through multiple times, know the story super well, it was great seeing it again through fresh eyes, the first reactions to the zurks and all the great moments you discover along the way but that ending still gets me every time.

"You, too, are a cat." "I immediately want to explore the environment," bro def a cat

I love watching this man play games

Length of game vs cost of game, so true. For Example, the game Gris, very very short but absolutely had me in tears.

caught the first half of the stream live, and have fully watched the longplay at least 3 times in the past week since I also caught The Virus (tm). Your commentary is probably some of the most insightful and amazing I've had the pleasure of listening to. Definitely going to catch more of your streams live :D edit: also props to steets for the editing of the video, didn't even notice the first time until I was like, "wait, where'd that part go?" Super cool, very quality-of-life. also, B-12 perhaps a reference to BlueTwelve?

I just played through this Last Month. What A Story. It hit me like a sack of bricks at the end. So well done. This game needs so much credit. I was in tears at the end. It was a game I needed.

Ha. Found you a couple of weeks ago and suddenly KZfaq is suggesting this. Maybe because I like Stray so much. I love that it was such a contained, closed experienced. Not really too long, but also not dragging out. And just enjoyable at the end. And as you said at the end, the emotional weight at the end is just wonderful. Hope and sadness. Hope that studio will do more in that direction. - And I don't mean Cat. I mean building worlds and stories. Cat is fine too!

grateful for these vods

heeeey thanks for uploading this!

Why is Thor actually a cat irl. I'm also loving these long play through videos

I love playing a chapter of the game, and then watch thor play it cuz he notices things i didn't! Love hearing the theories you make up as you go nd how they differed from mine :D

I really enjoyed your commentary on this game.

This was very inciteful. Nice work.

Wow this was quite the watch. Your commentary and interaction with chat is really good. I usually prefer no commentary Ler's Plays but this is great. Thanks!

Took four days for me to watch this, but man was that a great game to watch you play. I almost teared up at the end there. I wish more games were good at story telling as well as environmental story telling like this game was and how well the interaction with it worked. Long live B-12 ! Which funny enough is a vitamin too.

Have been watching half of this playtrough. Feels lika haveing a good friend with the same type of humor playing it. Nice to have "company" when being home with the flue. Keep up this damn good job your doing. Making people feel less alone (like me)

Getting off this rock will not help the ones chained to it..

this is great

You know there's nothing wrong with playing a game for longer than a day haha I watch a blind dude play disco elysium for well over a year and then some to complete it 😄

This makes me happy

man i love that cat

For a second there I thought you were going to take the subway with going back to Clementine and it was about to blow my mind. Then I realized that you needed the key. XD

Seeing how much you enjoyed exploratory games like this and Outer wilds, would love to see you experience Soma

This Game is a masterpiece in world building only through scenery and characters. It's so deep and detailed, I love it! I want a second part! I want this with open world parts and city parts and more cat friends and 100.000 playing hours please! And a Thor stream of it alongside ofc.

This is just like The End Inari's quest on the Steam store.

Seems like a good video to go to bed too

6:40:20 only if those at power would not forget this so often...

Thor: Spends 30 minutes telling how the game tells about the world with the small details Also Thor: speedruns the shit out of Outer Wilds

Thor, KZfaq has suddenly been recommending me your content; and I have to say I'm loving it. I'm currently in my second year of obtaining my degree in game design. I started with zero knowledge / skills, other than having played games my whole life. I'm now quite proficient in 3D modeling / texturing (Maya, Photoshop, Susbstance Painter) and have become familiar with the Unity game engine and quite a few of it's features. The only thing I feel lacking in is coding, even visual scripting just doesn't really click for me. I want to be in a design position so I'm not too concerned about the programming for me personally. My main focus now and after finishing my degree is to really develop my portfolio with some nice pieces. I'm local to WA myself. Any advice for my future endeavors? If you read this thanks, if you don't read this thanks. Oh, also I just hit 30 this year if that plays into your response at all.

My bengal loves her harness since she knows shes going out 😊

2:08:35 AHHHH THE LICK I CANT ESCAPE IT

Cool

a great little purrkour game!

Wait it's not my birthday, this dude playing cat game 😮 😻😻😻🥳🥳🥳 This gonna be a good time 🥰

Haha Thor said "I don't really get to play games", bet ya he can have a good laugh at that now :D

every angle in this game looks like a Lofi thumbnail

Oh man, I wanted to play this game so bad but seeing the kitty get hurt when I fumble was too much 😅 it was making me genuinely sad.

how is this game longer than the new cod campaign?

It's just cat in SCP containment breach simulator and I love it hahahaha!

This is what happens when creators just make something good. The only agenda is a good time.

Kitty!

Wonder if he will revisit for the bits missed in midtown

he didn't sleep at the village oh well

If you're big into language translating might I suggest Chants of Sennaar. It's a short little game about deciphering languages but I had some fun with it.

studying c++ while watchin this ./ those blobby things; yeh i could make that.. :D

Could atleast have reunited with other cats in the end... sad

In case nobody said it during stream, the book at 2:25:55 is a Gravity Falls reference! :D

This is a very old video, only a real geek would get this.

I love the game but I can't play it. These things give me an heart attack.

Press B to Meow > Press X to Shaun

Would be fun if you called that phone number, and an achievement popped up on the screen 😛

You get 3 lives per save. That's a standard. That's 9 lives.

What's with the moments of total silence?

27:10 steam

"cat cat cat cat cat"

Why was zultralord censored in this?

Cat

2:25:59 It's a furry book, shelved under U for UwU

Meow.

This game is a firm reminder of why I'm vegan

this is genuinely annoying to listen to when the audio drops occasionally.